We had lots of rain during the night, but another hot sunny morning. Skipper had a shower on the marina facilities where he met many of the other sailors, these showers in comparison to other places were small and cramped, and badly in the need of some redecoration.
Back on board, we had a light breakfast before going down town to sort out skippers phone once more. Despite being told in Rio that the chip purchased there would work all over Brazil, well it does not and will not. It seems that each state has its own phone network, and all independent of one another, so a new chip had to be purchased, now at 10€, it wont break the bank.
Marcelo's men cleaned the a/c pumps, repainted them and replaced many of the rusty steel fittings which were long overdue for replacement. Aileen light breakfast did not agree with her system so had to take things easy for the morning before eventually working up enough energy to take a stroll towards the nearest beach.
During the afternoon, Moe from Tucanon cleaned up Aileens laptop, so she took it to the internet room and had a go at using it, but connections proved difficult, so gave up eventually.
Later, we met Christos and Joerg from Lady Ev VI and had had a few drinks on board A Lady with them before they went for dinner to some friends house, we had a long chat about sailing up the coast, it seems their friend, who has lived locally for 15 years was able to give them valuable information on the bays and lagoons that we could stop for a night or two on our way north to Recife, so we decided we would leave on Saturday. That's great as skipper is beginning to get harbour fever.
Dinner consisted of bangers and mash, with our last tin of baked beans, so we made the most of it. The sausages here in Brazil are terrific, really big and meaty, and one sausage is usually enough for most meals. However, they do splatter when cooking and generally create a mess in the Galley, but no more sausage explosions, so far so good.
An early night. That's all,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( Skipper )